Unit 6 Vocabulary Flashcards
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of the three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance and individual’s cognition, emotion regulation or behavior
Psychological disorder
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in the hospital
Medical model
The American psychiatric Association’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
DSM-5
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
Anxiety disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in the state of automatic nervous system arousal
Generalized anxiety disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking or other frightening sensations often followed by worry over a possible new attack
Panic disorder
Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
Phobia
Intense fear of Social situations leading to avoidance of such (formerly called social phobia)
Social anxiety disorder
Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide-open places, where one has felt the loss of control and panic
Agoraphobia
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and or actions (compulsions)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and or insomnia that lingers for four weeks and more after traumatic experience
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crisis
Posttraumatic growth
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes; major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder
Mood disorders
A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms at least one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure
Major depressive disorder
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive wildly optimistic state
Mania
A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
Bipolar disorder
Compulsive fretting; over thinking about our problems and their causes
Rumination
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression
Schizophrenia
Psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
Psychosis
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
Delusions
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
Hallucination
A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause
Somatic symptom disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no psychological basis can be found
Conversion disorder
A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Illness anxiety disorder
Disorders in which conscious awareness become separated from previous memories thoughts and feelings
dissociative disorder
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. formerly called multiple personality disorder
Disassociative identity disorder
An eating disorder in which a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight
Anorexia nervosa
But eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) for fasting
Bulimia nervosa
Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, discussed, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa
Binge eating disorder
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
Personality disorders
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing even with friends and family members. may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist
Antisocial personality disorder
